27 DECEMBER 1930, Page 25

Some Books of the Week

DURING the past month the books most in demand at the Times Book Club have been :— NoN-FicrioN : The Apple Cart, by George Bernard Shaw ; The Kangehenjunga Adventure, by F. S. Smythe ; Edwardian Heydays, by G. Cornwallis West ; In Search of Ireland, by H. V. Morton ; Last Essays., by the Earl of Birkenhead ; England the Unknown Isle, by Paul Cohen -Portheim ; Isle of the Penguins, by Cherry Kearton. Fic-rica• : Thy Servant A Dog, by Rudyard Kipling The Square Circle, by Denis Mackail ; The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney, by Henry H. Richardson ; Decent Fellows, by John Heygate ; Success, by Lion Feuchtwanger ' • Strange Marriage, by Netta Syrett ; Certain People, by Edith Wharton ; Murder at the Pageant, by Victor L. Whitechurch.

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